[Organizers] BACDS workshops

Please share! ECD musician workshop virtual mixer for Mac workshop for sound techs fiddling bow & ornaments workshop. ECD musician workshop with Rachel Bell! This Sun 8/30 from 6-715pm ET (3-415pm PT) We'll work on learning the tune and playing it well, with attention to phrasing and articu

Re: [Organizers] Looking for innovative door pricing model

Hi Heitzso, Can you tell me how you pay for the dances since you are losing money every time hiring a top band and paying them well? Thanks for sharing. Claire Takemori (campbell CA) Date: Sat, 15 Dec 2018 16:00:14 + From: heit...@growthmodels.com To: "

Re: [Organizers] Ideas for revenue BEYOND the door entry price (Winston, Alan P.)

Alan, Actually Amweek last year applied for a CDSS grant to help us cover scholarships and the change in registration pricing for last year. We went from $700/person to a sliding scale and we were not sure that we would get enough full & over-paying folks to cover the lower-income folks and sc

Re: [Organizers] mini-beginner contra courses - ideas? (Emily Addison)

Hi Emily! I like the idea and think it maybe helpful to some despite the Cons listed. One thing I am working on at South Bay Contra in the SF Bay Area, is to have a quarterly workshop called “Next Steps”. This happened once so far (the next quarter had a weekend workshop called "Contra Coll

Re: [Organizers] Taking admission (Chrissy Fowler)

Hi Chrissy, We have a small dance part of the BACDS. 3rd Sundays 3-6pm. bacds.org/sbc Organizers sit the door & take money when no volunteers are available. We solicit volunteers when they sign in for the dance. Sign in sheet has pre-dance, & Dances #1-8. We don’t a

Re: [Organizers] record-keeping for sliding scale admission?

Hi Dana , In the SF Bay Area, we use a sign-in sheet for liability purposes (I’m told) and dancers can self check “member, non-member, or student” and pay that rate. $12 non-member, $10 member, $6 student. However we also have $20+ “supporter” and “pay as you can” and negotiable family rate (a

Re: [Organizers] follow up to family dance questions

Paul and all, I’m curious what the child age ranges are for the family & community dances? It sounds like they are young? So then all the middle school kids and older go to regular contras? I’m hoping to start a dance in SF bay area in CA, but not sure if it should be a family dance series,